...newspaper publisher, but he is not in the same category in terms of public obligation imposed by law. A broadcaster seeks and is granted the free and exclusive...domain ; when he accepts that franchise, it is burdened with enforceable public obligations. A newspaper can be operated at the whim or caprice of its owners...

...the "delicate baiane [e]" that broadcast regulation must achieve. We disagree. A licensed broadcaster is "granted the free and exclusive use of a limited...burdened by enforceable public obligations." Office of Communication of the United Church of Christ v. FCC, 123 US App. DC 328, 337, 359 F. 2d 994, 1003 (1966)....

...System, Inc. v. FCC, _ _ US , 101 S.Ct. 2813, 2829 (1981), the Court stated "A licensed broadcaster is 'granted the free and exclusive use of a limited...that franchise it is burdened by enforceable public obligations.1" (Citation omitted.) Such language fits the cirumstances of a cable operator as easily...

...served thereby." 47 TSC sec. 307(d) (1904). And. as the court of appeals has recently reminded us : "A broadcaster seeks and is granted the free and exclusive...It Is burdened by enforceable public obligations. A newspaper can be operated at the whim or caprice of Its owners; a broadcast station cannot. After...

...well-established, and its history is worth repeating briefly here. In 1966, the DC Circuit held that a broadcaster is "granted the free and exclusive use of a limited...burdened by enforceable public obligations." Office of Communications of the United Church of Christ v. FCC, 359 F.2d 994, 1003. As explained in the Report...

...not compel King's Garden to become a licensee. (This fact distinguishes Wisconsin v. Yorfcr, above.) "A broadcaster seeks and is granted the free and exclusive...domain : when he accepts that franchise it is burdened bv enforceable public obligations." United Church of Christ v. FCC, 359 F. 2d 994, 1003 (DC Cir. 1966)....

...individual broadcaster.31* As the Supreme Court observed in CBS. Inc. v. FCC,31* "a licensed broadcaster is "granted the free and exclusive use of a limited...the public domain; when he accepts that franchise u is burdened by enforceable public obligations. '"3:u The fact that Congress elected to retain public...

...sector ownership of the broadcast licenses tempered by public service responsibilities; in return for "free and exclusive use of a limited and valuable part of the public domain," broadcasters were to be "burdened by enforceable public obligations."' These public obligations may...

...position conferred by the Government."); CBS, Inc. v. FCC, 453 US 367, 395 (1981) (A "licensed broadcaster is 'granted the free and exclusive use of a limited and valuable pan of the public domain; when he accepts that franchise it is burdened by enforceable pubic obligations.'")...

...Communications of United Church of Christ vs. FCC, (359 F. 2d 944 at page 1003) (DC Cir. 1966): The broadcaster seeks and is granted the free and exclusive...public domain. When he accepts that franchise, it is a burden by enforceable public obligations. A newspaper can be operated at the whim or caprice of its...